In 1973, the University of California, Berkeley admitted 44% of male applicants and 35% of female applicants.
Yet, it did not discriminate against women.
Paradoxes like this one are commonplace and:
- cause data scientists to inadvertently introduce bias in their machine learning models.
- support the spread of fake news.
- make it hard to be a good data scientist.
In this article we will investigate the above statement to understand how statistics, fake news spreaders and AI trick you.
☕️
